POLR Playlist

Tide/Shore EP - Andy Skellam

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Lean back and relax to the most recent pearls in folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter and slow, calm or sad indie.

Indie Folk 2025

Released on Pear O'Legs Records on 02/01/22

HYTHE - Rocket To Ride On

Tide/Shore - Andy Skellam

Alice - Andy Skellam

New Spring, Shoe String - Andy Skellam

Written on NYE 2020, To Your Eyes is stripped right back to just Benji and his guitar. About the song, Benji says “I find this time of year truly magical, a time to slow down and take stock, to hibernate, away from the busyness of the world, the anxiety of social media. I’ve had a few occasions where songs will come to me around New Years Eve, but this one stuck and I’m very fond of it. It’s about shaking off my jaded world view (briefly), appreciating what I have, and choosing, or at least intending to choose love, kindness, and hope”

To Your Eyes (out NYD 2023) is the second single from debut album Songs to Make You Happy, coming January 20th 2023 on Pear O’ Legs Records.

Welsh singer and songwriter Benji Tranter returns with his debut album Songs to Make You Happy. With a lo-fi, DIY ethos, unembellished guitars and vocals deliver a charming, sometimes chaotic, collection of vignettes; diary entries, polaroid snapshots, throwaway poems and short stories. The influence of US songwriters like Elliott Smith, Conor Oberst and Daniel Johnston is clear throughout, with occasional elements from Scott Walker, Nick Drake, and the care-free naivety of Jonathan Richman.

Out on the January 20, 2023 on Pear O’Legs Records.
The first single from the album, 'Satellite' is out now.

Songs written and performed by Benji Tranter
Drums on tracks 3 and 9 by Ben Howarth
Trumpet on track 11 by Jovis Lane
Tracks 3 and 9 engineered by Ru Lemer at Temple Music Studio
All other tracks recorded at home
Produced by Jovis Lane
Mastered by Ed Woods
Album cover photo by Calum Lynn

To Your Eyes

YCBCC

I Cry Into The Morning - Andy Skellam

Valley Fog - Andy Skellam

'Sooner Or Later' will be released on 3/3/23.

Sooner Or Later

Night Noise Team is Sean Ormsby and Fabien Pinardon. Originally from Belfast and Paris but now living in Edinburgh and London. NNT has a sly way with a lyric, a melody, an arrangement. They draw from a well of chansons, funk, rock, pop and soundtrack music. 

New single Little Shocks is direct, European, dancefloor pop with a lyric seesawing between Edinburgh and Barcelona and beats vacillating from brittle to euphoric.

Contact: Sean at nightnoiseteam (@) gmail.com
Twitter: @nightnoiseteam 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nightnoiseteam 
Bandcamp: https://nightnoiseteammusic.bandcamp.com

Little Shocks

Misunderstood jumps and jitters into a full-on punk assault right from the off. Speeding through your brain like an out of control, amphetamine powered steam train, the track manages to spit out venomous tounge in cheek lyrics that call out a hypercritical society, where people take the moral high ground without thinking of the consequences of their own actions. So jump in, hold on tight and enjoy the ride!

Misunderstood

1675941775664 Missunderstood Master

A conversation between two lovers.

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LYRICS
Cold as ice, caught in the passing of time
I didn’t understand the things that you do
So I settle you down,
“Take in the moment, it’s not gonna come back around”
But you frowned and said:
“For some things in life, you gotta keep those feet on the ground”

I take comfort in you, but That’s All
I don’t feel like you do and That’s All
and sooner or later you won’t want me hanging around

Don’t just stare at the ground
For some things in life are waiting just to be found
And no doubt, I need you tonight
To keep me from just dropping out

I take comfort in you and That’s All
I don’t feel like you do and That’s All
and sooner or later you might just need me around

Is it true…what you say?
Is it true…you’re drifting away?
All that you say…is it even remotely the truth?

Have I lost you?

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SONG PERFORMED BY:
Si Clancy / Vocals
Nadine Haberl / Vocals
John Bean / Cello
Ruth O'Mahony Brady / Piano
Mirka Neulomaa / Viola, Violin
Vicki Reynolds / French Horn

Thank-you to the incredible musicians who played on this track!

Special thanks to Ruth O'Mahony Brady :-)

Written by Si Clancy © 2013-2023. Mixed by Si Clancy and Nadine Haberl with help and advice from Jez Burns. Piano arranged by Nadine Haberl and Ruth O'Mahony Brady. Strings and brass arranged by Martha Bean. Recorded between homes and Yellow Bean Studios, Leicester. Mastered by Jez Burns.

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